Example of the .ndb file format is presented below. There is a binary format called .cndb.
Scripts to convert from .cndb and .ndb to .pdb, .gro and . spw can be found here.
Details of each NDB file format entry are described here.
HEADER NDB File Format Example Dec-19
TITLE The Nucleome Data Bank: Web-based Resources
TITLE 2 Simulate and Analyze the Three-Dimensional Genome
EXPDTA Simulation - MEGABASE - MiChroM
AUTHOR Contessoto et. al. - 2019
CYCLE INTERPHASE G2
SEQCHR 1 1P 5 A2 B1 B3 A1 B4
SEQCHR 1 1M 5 B2 B3 A1 B3 B1
MODEL 0
CHROM 1 A2 ctcf+ 1P 1 0.372 -0.929 0.394 1 50000 1.000
CHROM 2 B1 1P 2 0.410 -0.117 0.953 50001 100000 1.000
CHROM 3 B3 1P 3 0.318 0.857 0.866 100001 150000 1.000
CHROM 4 A1 ctcf- 1P 4 0.321 -0.939 0.272 150001 200000 1.000
CHROM 5 B4 1P 5 1.193 0.923 -0.776 200001 250000 1.000
CHROM 6 B2 1M 1 1.124 0.908 -0.659 1 50000 1.000
CHROM 7 B3 ctcf- 1M 2 0.324 0.068 -0.386 50001 100000 1.000
CHROM 8 A1 1M 3 -0.327 0.701 -0.096 100001 150000 1.000
CHROM 9 B3 1M 4 -0.581 -0.013 0.432 150001 200000 1.000
CHROM 10 B1 1M 5 -0.936 -0.850 0.239 200001 250000 1.000
DNAELE 11 TF 2 1 -1.409 -0.888 -0.631 150001 150500 0.100
DNAELE 12 CH 3 1 0.352 -0.935 0.354 1 200000 0.100
...
LOOPS 1 4 COHESIN
LOOPS 5 6 POLYCOMB
END
1 |
Nucleome Element Type |
2 |
Index |
3 |
Compartment or DNA Element |
4 |
DNA Properties |
5 |
Chain Identifies |
6 |
Index within Chain |
7 |
X-coordinate |
8 |
Y-coordinate |
9 |
Z-coordinate |
10 |
Genomic Position Start |
11 |
Genomic Position End |
12 |
Variance of DNA Distribution |